Record Number: SKE0032

Related Work: Heart of Mid-Lothian, The

Illustration Title/Caption: The Guard House

Keyword(s): Edinburgh - Soldiers

Artist: James Skene

Engraver: No Engraver

Work Type: etching

Size(cm): 7.8 x 13.4

Date: 1830

Source Text: A Series of Sketches of the Existing Localities alluded to in the Waverley Novels Etched from Original Drawings (Edinburgh: Cadell & Co., 1829[-1831])

Position in Source Text: facing p. 80

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson B.SKE.3

Image File Name: No image available for this record.

Notes: Depicts the Guard-House, old headquarters of the City Guard, in the Edinburgh High Street. Accompanying quoted text (p. 80), with reference to Magnum Opus edition: 'The Guard-House was . . . its beautiful esplanade. / Heart of Mid-Lothian, Vol. XI, p. 247.' See Ch. 6; EEWN 6, 51. Originally issued as part of a separate number in 1830.

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